Oh how things change........QUICKLY

SO this is going to be part 1 of how the girls came by their birth date. Last week was by far the craziest I have ever had. Although I never would have through that by the end of the week I would have two amazing girls staring back at me.

Lets start at the beginning:

Sunday September 18th
The entire day had been uneventful we had amazing sessions on the monitor all day, the girls were easy to find and really stayed on the monitor almost the entire hour which meant that mom wasn't hooked up ALL day. I should have know that my girls were planning something...

Our last monitoring session was the one that concerned my high risk doctor. It wasn't a concern that meant the girls would have to be here right now, more it just set the stage for other anomalies to be a bigger concern. "Baby B" Ada had during our last session managed to get her heart rate up to 196 bpm for a minute or two which isn't terrible but in the same session she managed to level off to her normal baseline rate and then have a decel to about 100 bpm. Again this worried the doctors but for now they were just going to wait and see!

I went to bed a little shaken but for the most part confident that this was just another fluke because that had done this sort of thing before without anything bad happening.

Monday September 19th
I'm gonna be honest for as weird as the last night session was everything on Monday was rather boring. The girls were active on the monitors, meaning they were having acels and decels like any other baby for their gestational age. I tried for the most part to sleep the day away and the constant parade of nurses and doctors through my door was really making it difficult to get any sleep. So really nothing happened on Monday, it was as any hospital stay can be "normal". In no way did it prepare me for the events that would unfold the following day!!!

Oh oh we're half way there.........

My favorite thing in the world is finally available!!! Betty Jane Caramel Apples!! My girls have finally got a taste for this special fall treat.

We have been in the hospital for over 4 weeks and a little less than 4 weeks to go! The girls are surprising everyone by doing soooo well. We have never really had any scares so far and we are going to cross our fingers that this continues to be a trend.

Since our last posting there hasn't been anything too exciting go on, we've had another Ultrasound but it wasn't to calculate growth it was a cord pressure check to make sure that they blood flow was within standards. Are girls continue to get great marks and everything was normal.  As for me I just have the normal pregnancy woos except that everything is a lot sooner then other women! Muscles I didn't know I had hurt when I try to move around......ugh. Plus finding a comfortable way to sleep has become a whole new challenge!! But other than that everything is going great. Counting down the days till I'll be free and hoping the girls will be able to come home soon after me!

We survive our 3rd week but with lack of sleep!!

Baby B

So first off I want to let everyone know that we are all here and doing very well despite the doctors attempts to drive us insane ;)

29 weeks and also 3 weeks in the hospital!!! I can't believe we have made it this far, not that I doubted that we'd be able to. But really you never know how mentally you will handle a situation like this and for the most part I feel that we are doing well. Mind you we (I find it funny that I refer to myself as we but there are 3 of us here!) have our days where almost lose it and by lose it I just mean break down and cry, which granted I am a hormonal pregnant lady so I should be cut a break........right?

This past weekend was my major test!! It seems that my girls being my girls decide that they are going to be troublesome to the degree that they have decided to be really close!  Baby A is now head-down on my left side and Baby B is sideways (transverse) with her head on my right side but to add to that she is hiding under her sister!! Which let me tell you makes it almost impossible to actually get her heart rate. Rewind to this weekend the girls decided for 3 nights in a row to be next to impossible to find. Which meant that for 3 nights in a row I did not make it to bed till after midnight!! Which wouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that every morning I am woken up at 6am to start the monitoring process all over again. Plus throw in a few irritating nurses who are not able to actually find the girls and not call for help but instead abandon me in the room by myself without checking in!! So yep I have a nurse who I totally hate.

The girls have since become sort of not too troublesome! For the most part now we know where they are so that helps when we are searching out their elusive heart rates!

On Tuesday we had another Ultrasound. The girls are still developmentally doing awesome which gives me a big sigh of relief. Also they are continued to grow!!! Baby A is 3lbs 1oz and Baby B is 2lbs 5oz!!! The girls are getting mega big now!!

5 more weeks to go!

Second Week and an official date is set

So we have made it to 28 weeks!! I never thought this day would come so quickly, I also can't believe that I have already been here 2 weeks!

I haven't really met any of the other mothers on the floor but I have met a LOT of the nurses and the majority of them are just sweethearts. They realize that it isn't easy being "trapped" here for so long and being far removed from the life that you had lived before. And for the most part the majority of them are great to talk to. Which helps when the girls are misbehaving and refusing to stay on the monitor and the nurses have to hold them down on my belly. Talk about your close and personal. In the hospital there is no personal bubble!

As for how the girls are doing, the doctors are glad by how the girls are doing so far. They have also set the best date for the girls to come, and to my surprise they have changed to 34 weeks. Which would mean that they would be here October 12th!! So that means an extra 2 weeks for me, but if that means that the girls will spend less time in the NICU then its worth it!!  But with anything in this pregnancy we just don't know, so as long as the girls behave we will be good!